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- Hietpas, Ruth (Gussert) 1991 Appleton Post Crescent February 7th, 1991, Mrs. Mark G. Hietpas, Ruth M. Gussert, age 54, and died 830 P M Wednesday, following a battle with cancer. She was born April 22nd, 1936 in Wrightstown. She was a member of the St. John Catholic Church and had been a Little Chute resident for 34 years, since her marriage to Mark on April 24th, 1956. Survivors include her husband, Mark; two sons and a daughter in law: Philip and Lea Hietpas, Kaukauna; Kevin Hietpas, at home; five daughters and sons in law: Barbara and Jerry Meulemans, Kaukauna; Karen and Mike Schwabenlander; Kelly and Andy Hietpas, Red Wing, Minnesota; Sandra and Mark Diedrich, Hortonville; Sally and Rick Stoeger, Little Chute; two brothers and sisters in law, Connie and Donna Gussert, Guthrie Okla.; Lloyd and Mary Gussert, Wrightstown; 12 grandchildren: Liberty, Brody, Kyle, Nicole, Jonathan Hietpas, Eric, Lucas Vanlankvelt, Corrie, Troy, Dana Schwabenlender, Michael and Emily Diedrich; her mother in law, Margaret Penning's, Kaukauna; four brothers in law: Arts and Irene Hietpas, Appleton; Paul and Ethel Hietpas, Coleman; Owen and Irene Hietpas, Leesburg Florida; a very special brother in law Dennis Hietpas, Kaukauna; three sisters in law: Pat Tatro, Kaukauna; Margie Hietpas, Kaukauna; Betty and Casey VanderSanden, Little Chute. She was preceded in death by her parents: Leo and Agnes Gussert, two sisters in law: Bernice Larson and Shirley Mattern; a brother in law Bill Hietpas; a son in law, John Vanlankvelt, father in law, William Hietpas. Funeral services will be 7:00 p.m. Friday from St. John Catholic Church with the Reverend Monsignor James Vandenhogen officiating. Internment will be in the parish cemetery. The golden heart stopped beating, hard-working hands to rest, God it broke our hearts to prove he only takes the best. A million times we thought of you, a million times we've cried, If Love alone could have saved you, you never would have died. In life we love you dearly, in death we love you still, in our hearts you hold a special place no one else can never fill. It broke our hearts to lose you, but Ruth you didn't go alone, for most of us what with you that day God took you home. God took from us a very special person.
- Grandma Ruth was born in Wrightstown, Wisconsin. She was the youngest of 3 in her family. When she was two years old her mom died. She lived with her grandma until she married Grandpa Mark.
Grandma Ruth stayed home to take care of her 7 children. When her last son was born in 1971, Grandma Ruth and Grandpa Mark bought a bar on Pine Street. She worked full time in the bar until they sold it in 1976. Later she had a job at the deli department at the Piggly Wiggly and at Reynebeau Floral putting floral arrangements together.
Grandma Ruth always found time to go to every one of her child's sporting events. If it was volleyball games, basketball games, football games, wrestling matches, or track events. She was always there. In one year she had 4 kids in high school. Grandma Ruth was the person in the bleachers sitting on her hands because she was always nervous when she watched her kids play sports.
Aaron Hietpas 2006
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1936 - 1991 (54 years)
